Word: cloudlessly
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...carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations of all things...
...rise apartment buildings and hotels dot the sunbaked hills of Monte Carlo, creating an atmosphere that is a dazzling and claustrophobic. We labored up a hill and, reaching its summit, gazed out over the city and the bay. It was a beautiful summer day. The sun blazed through a cloudless sky reflecting off the hills, the buildings, and the ice-blue waters of the bay. High crowded hills surrounded the water on three sides, looming over the bay like the tiers of some gigantic football stadium...
...sudden summer squalls and tornadoes. Called MCIDAS (for Man-Computer Interactive Data Access System), the program uses some fancy extrapolation techniques to help local storm watchers locate pockets of impending bad weather that are too small to be picked up by the national weather-monitoring systems. On a cloudless morning in Wisconsin recently it correctly predicted, six hours in advance, severe thunderstorms in the northern part of the state...
...said that the first real downpouring rains came to Wimbledon in 1968 with the professionals, and prior to that there was a sunny expression, "Wimbledon weather," meaning calm cloudless days. On D-day in June 1944, as he pushed off with the invasion forces in a fierce, howling squall, Tinling can remember saying, "Thank heaven we don't have a Wimbledon this year," and thinking that was lucky. -By Tom Callahan
...late April, a cloudless Thursday evening in Detroit. Assume further that there is no advance warning. Shortly after 8:30, the lone warhead of a Soviet SS-13 missile comes swooping down. Six thousand feet, directly above the intersection of Interstate Highways 94 and 75, the 1-megaton bomb-only a fiftieth as large as the Soviets' largest warhead-explodes with the force of 1 million tons...